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Originally Posted by RWebb
well, you'd be wrong or almost wrong
innovation will happen at some level, no matter what
but there is a very long history of increased innovation driven by govt. actions:
- NACA, NASA and all it has spawned
- all sorts of military technologies - not just here but in ancient China and in between
- clean air and clean water acts - see "technology forcing"
- etc.
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NACA and NASA are really different forms of "military" technology. Sure government actions related to military Purchases have spurred innovation, but that's because there really aren't any other domestic customers for military technology. And of course there is always technology cross-over, so military technology has spurred non-military innovation (Tang anyone?), but by the same token non-military technologies (civilian automotive manufacturing technology) has spurred military technologies (thousands and thousands of tanks and planes in WWII).
It's not clear to me how you can directly link government action to increased innovation. Or are you suggesting that Al Gore really did invent the internet???
